Order and the Virtual: The Philosophy and Science of Deleuzian Cosmology

Bill Ross

Bill Ross demonstrates the relation between Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of difference and the conceptual foundations of contemporary physics through careful engagements with the theory of relativity, quantum physics and chaos and complexity theory. Ross shows that recent work in cosmology by figures such as Lee Smolin and David Bohm calls into question the assumption that the laws of physics are universal and unchanging, a view that Deleuze anticipates. The second law of thermodynamics tells us that order in the universe as a whole is destined to break down. Against this, Ross demonstrates that, given Deleuze's conception of the event as an expression of non-locality, and his emphasis on dissymmetry over symmetry, at the cosmological scale the universe is not destined towards disorder: evolution outruns entropy.

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Order and the Virtual

The Philosophy and Science of Deleuzian Cosmology

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Front Matter
pp i-iv

Table of Contents
pp v-vi

Series Editor’s Preface
pp vii-viii

Preface: Playing Cortázarian Hopscotch
pp ix-xi

Abbreviations
pp xii-xii

1. - Chaos
pp 1-23

2. - Entropy and the Complete Concept in Leibniz and Deleuze
pp 24-70

3. - Order
pp 71-108

4. - Order as Complexity
pp 109-130

5. - Sufficient Reason as Dissymmetry and the Evolutionary Paradigm
pp 131-174

Conclusion
pp 175-181

Notes
pp 182-206

Bibliography
pp 207-216

Index
pp 217-223

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